The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-01-20
THE LONDON HORROR
4 Frantic and Fearful Strug-
gle for Life.
srcKEyING SCENES IN THE HALL
co,,res,ional Record for wednesday
still After the Pacific Rail
Hays-other Notes.
The London Horror.

LONDON, January 19-The hall IN
which the panic occurred yesterday, re-
ssmbled 4 disordered auction room to-
d,v Broken furniture, crushed toys
children's hats, broken bottles, orange
nsel actors wigs and shreds of clothes,
lie scattered over the floor. Many Dloo9
snots we're on the backs OF cnalrs anu
lie floor. Here and there ghastly
knots of hair are clinging to the Iur-
n;tnre Several escapes were made
through the windows, most OF
which are badly smashed.
THE BODIES WERE FOUND
., the bottom of the stone stairs lead
ing to the gallery. Here terrible
qtruggle took place between the front
n the crowd rushing from the main
Soor and the leaders of the throng
wbirb rushed down the gallery stairs.
The dead Law mostly in the two OPP
nosinp rows, the feet of each row close
70 those of the other. one row OF heads
wing toward the gallery stairway. the
other toward the opposite side OF the
hall. The faces of the dead are dis
torted with agOnized expressions ana
the clothes completely
TORN FROM THE BODIES OF SOME.
A little girl, since identified as Eva
Marks, was found lying at the bottom
Of the pile of the dead, her lower limbs
bare, and the upper part of her dress
tornin shreds, showing that she fought
hard for life. Isaac Levy, a venerable
Hebrew with white flowing beard and
hair, was found among the dead.
He and his wife were regular
attendants at the performances. They
always sat near the door. 1t is thought
from the position in which his body
was found, that Levy, instead of flee
ing alone when the panic started, re-
NAMED to help protect his wife. so the
old man was brushed down by the
rushing crowd and stamped to death.
His wife's body lay opposite woman
in the prime of life, who wore brightly
cOlored clothes and quantities OF
jewellery,
BESIDE HER LAY LITTLE BOY,
whose knickerbockers and stockings
we're torn in shreds. A man named
Harris Goldberg says hewent to the gal.
lery Of the hall, accompanied by his
wife and family. They all sat together
at the play of the melOdrama called the
Spanish Gypsy Girl. During the
performance some boys, in order
10 obtain better view OF
the stage, climbed up an exposed
gas pipe, fixed along the wall, and thus
strained it and started a leak. Gold
berg placed a handkerchief over the
leak. Some one shouted turn off the
metre" This shout was raised stimuli
taneously with the cry of alarm from
one Of the actors on the stage. Then
the people in the gallery rushed head.
long down the stairs. Goldberg's wife
was torn away from him and trampled
to death. his 6-year-old son
JUMPED UPON THE HEADS
OF the packed mass, and escaped by
running over them. The managers are
not to blame for the disaster, for the
passage from the hall to the street en-
trance IS ten feet wide. where the
struggle occurred, and the doors swing
Ooth ways. The are several minor
eAls from the gallery three besides
tne staircase. Tie disaster arose not
ION ~ the .crowdius of the passage, but
.ue aEa1uc Efforts of the people to force
r, wa! u9Wn the crowded stairs. The
be N- Suu women in front were driven
me, i6a INTO the passage, where they
and tber eAot'eu occupants of the pit,
-1 'nefe was hopeless block.